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said “hands.” How would contact of skin with cloth make any difference? It does. The Holy
Spirit is in us. He can come upon us, and He can even anoint us specially. This sounds
superstitious and strange to some people, but it’s the Bible. Anointing power can go into a cloth
and can stay in a cloth for a period of time, like a battery. When that cloth is laid on the body of
the oppressed or sick, that power can come out of the cloth and go into them and drive out
oppression and effect healing. We’re reading the Bible. That is special. God does special things,
like Peter’s shadow. Special.
You might ask, “Why are you saying that?” Because it reveals God’s character and His Person
and His will. These things are also called signs and wonders. What is a wonder? Well, it’s
something that makes you wonder. You look at it, and you wonder how that happened.
I’ve seen these kinds of things. They can happen so fast that your mind tries to think it wasn’t
that way, but you know it was that way. I’ve seen people who had a problem in their body, and I
prayed for them, and before I could take my hands off of them, it had changed. It was almost like
it wasn’t that way. It happened so quickly it made you wonder how that happened.
Brother Hagin told a story years ago about laying hands on a woman who had a giant tumor. She
was older, but it looked like she was nine-months pregnant. He laid hands on her, and it just went
away. The clothes she had on were just like a tent, and she grabbed herself and said,
“Wha…wha…wha…where’d it go?”
He said, “I don’t know, but we’re glad it’s gone.”
Well, that makes you wonder.
Well, is He or is He not God? Can He do these kinds of things? Yes, He can. Miracles. Signs and
wonders.
I laid hands on a lady one time years ago. She was in her 80’s. She was deaf in one ear and had
rotary cuff damage in her shoulder. She could not raise her arm. The Spirit of God came on me,
and I don’t recommend you do this unless the Lord leads you to, but I kind of popped her on the
side of the head and said, “Be open!” And I took her by the arm and just picked it up and said,
“Be loosed,” and it was. She started moving it and saying, “Ohhh! Glory! Glory!” We checked
her with a watch, and she could hear the ticking out of that ear when she closed the other one.
Healing is a restoration of the body from a damaged or diseased condition, and it implies a
process. You see cases where people were healed gradually, even in Jesus’ ministry. But this
happened in a moment of time, faster than you can blink your eyes. That’s not just a restoration,
that’s a miracle. If everything is fixed, and you start recovering over a period of time, then you
heal up and get better. But we’re talking about “now you see it, now you don’t.” That’s a
miracle, and God has always done miracles. He does special things.
How does that prove it is God’s will for all of us to be healed? Why does He do these kinds of
things? These special miracles?